END OF THE DRIVE,
by Louis L'Amour. (Bantam, $15.95) Eight previously unpublished tales about
the old west.

19

AFFAIR,
by Amanda Quick. (Bantam, $23.95)A private investigator undertakes to find
the murderer of a wealthy woman who was her client.

20

CHROMOSOME 6,
by Robin Cook. (Putnam, $24.95.) The missing liver of a corpse found
floating in a river may provide clues to the murder of a crime figure.

21

THE WAITING TIME,
by Eugenia Price. (Doubleday, $23.95.) An historical romance set in
pre-Civil War America.

22

AIRFRAME,
by Michael Crichton. (Knopf, $26.) A young woman investigates the near
disaster that befell a plane on its way from Hong Kong to Denver.

23

LADY OF AVALON,
by Marion Zimmer Bradley . (Viking, $24.95.) Roman Britain is the setting
for myth and magic in a time before King Arthur.

24

3001: The Final
Odyssey,
by Arthur C. Clarke. (Del Rey/ Ballantine, $25.) One of the heroes of
"2001: A Space Odyssey" tries to save the human race from a dangerous
monolith.

25

EVENING CLASS,
by Maeve Binchy. (Delacorte, $24.95.) Family secrets, aspirations and
passions surface during a course in Italian at a Dublin school.

26

SOLE SURVIVOR,
by Dean Koontz. (Knopf, $25.95.) A reporter searches for a woman who claims
to know a secret about the plane crash that killed his family.

27

SMALL VICES,
by Robert B. Parker. (Putnam, $21.95.) The private eye Spenser has a brush
with death while pursuing a young womans murderer.

28

THE MEMOIRS OF CLEOPATRA,
by Margaret George. (St. Martin's, $27.95.) An historical novel conjurs the
Queen of the Nile with all her ambitions and passions.

29

NIMITZ CLASS,
by Patrick Robinson. (HarperCollins, $25.) A Navy carrier and its crew of
six thousand is claimed in an act of nuclear terrorism.

30

CROOKED LITTLE HEART,
by Anne Lamott. (Pantheon, $24.) A young tennis player and the ups and
downs of her family life.

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